ARTIC Disaster

Anaheim’s new ARTIC train station was built on the wrong side of the freeway, putting visitors further away from Disneyland. And whereas the old station had easy access to buses and parking, the new one forces passengers to walk long distances.

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They keep “improving” stations by making them less convenient. Just like how they “improved” the Sacramento station by moving the tracks two blocks away and breaking the cross-platform transfer to the light rail. Moral of the story: “improvement” is a euphemism, and just because money goes into the process, doesn’t mean any positive value comes out the other end.

That said, careful deployment of those high-tech devices known as “sidewalks” could deal with a lot of the problems. There’s already a direct exit along the platforms to the old location. A Santa Ana river pedestrian bridge would render the current site more useful than the old site.